User Reviews

This offering is an American-style brown ale with special English brown malts. The beer is a deep brown with a small, dark frothy head when it comes out. It smells of chocolate, caramel and smoked/roasted malt. The taste is supberb, this beer gives subtle hints of caramel, chocolate, deep malt and the right measure of bitterness. This beer reminds me a lot of Bell's Best Brown Ale and is one of my favorites both at Magnolia and out of the brown ales I have had. Every swallow is very drinkable and deep in taste, I simply loved it. Big Cypress has English finishing hops in it to add "an earthy aroma and flavor." A great effort.

Pours a clear, brown color. 1/2 inch head of an off-white color. Great retention and great lacing. Smells of slight sweet malt, slight caramel malt, English hops, yeast, and hop oils. Fits the style of an American Brown Ale. Mouth feel is smooth and clean, with a low carbonation level. Tastes of slight sweet malt, slight caramel malt, English hops, yeast, and hop oils. Overall, good appearance, aroma, body, blend, and great feel.

This pours with a malty dark caramel color. There’s a sharp, roasty note on it. Each sip opens up with a slight malty sweetness balanced by a sharp roast. It’s lightly bodied, and a surprisingly delicate brown ale. One of the better brown ales I’ve had.

Appearance: Imperial pint. Dark brown with slight clarity. With a low level carbonation, the small head settles down to a thin film pretty quickly.

Smell: Nice toasty melanoidin malt character with notes of butterscotch and stewed fruits from the yeast. Only mildly sweet, but nice and aromatic for a low ABV beer.

Taste & mouthfeel: A pleasant mix of butterscotch and toasted malt on the palate. The yeast character is very English, contributing buttery and fruity flavors along with a bit of green apple. Noticeable diacetyl, but it suits this style of beer quite well. Light bodied, verging on thin but not quite there. Finishes with toasted, lightly roasted malt bitterness but little in the way of hops. Very enjoyable.

Had on tap at the Magnolia brewpub. The color was chocolate brown with a nice tan head. The aroma is mostly chocolate and roasted malts, and the flavor was dominated by chocolate. Good carbonation and mouthfeel, I think this was better than most American Brown Ales. Like a chocolate beer.

This is a smooth ale with really excellent earthy and malty brown ale tones. They're not all up in my face, but they're subtle and provide nice accents. The feel of this beer is extremely smooth with what seems like virtually no noticeable carbonation. Which makes for an unusual kind of elixir feel, I want to say.

It's a nice ale, though I feel like it would have been better with food. (I'm drinking it after my meal.) But with such a low abv and a nice profile, you can't go wrong.

P.S. Without looking at the BA profile, I'm wondering if this would be classified as an English brown ale. (I was writing this on my phone.)

Poured chestnut color with a thin off-white head, poor retention, and modest lacing. Smelled of nuts, toffee, and earthiness. The taste...and feel...was on the thin side, with some caramel, toffee, leaves, and nuts all apparent, and leading to a somewhat earthy/nutty finish. Modest carbonation and, again, very thin. Possibly thin enough to session, but the aura of leaves was too distracting for me.

Pour: draught to pint glass. The beer's a very dark brown with a small off-white head that doesn't leave much behind in the way of lacings.

Nose: Very heavily roasted malts. The smell almost seems like the malts have been overcooked and has an abrasive quality to it that I dont' like.

Mouth: A lot like the smell, only in the mouth it's worse. Flavors of roasted nuts and an unpleasant smokiness up front with a burnt toast swallow and aftertaste. Weak mf and pretty boring, if not unpleasant.

[email protected] Pub and brewery, San Fransisco- pretty sweet and thin, some toffee and nuts, grainy texture. Not a big fan of this one, and really can't say too much more about it. Its a shame i didn't likem the beers here, coz the brewpub was quite nice and friendly.